Valo is an open source, self-hosted smart home hub for Zigbee, MQTT and IP cameras. A lightweight alternative to Home Assistant for homes built on Zigbee2MQTT: one web interface for dashboards, visual automations, camera recording with object detection, extensions and an optional AI assistant. It runs on a mini PC at home, works without the cloud and installs with one command.
Valo is in early development, before beta. It runs daily on real hardware in the author's home, but there are no releases yet and things still change. Feedback, bug reports and ideas are very welcome.
 Overview. Rooms on a floor plan, warnings, scenes, climate and energy |
 Automations. A visual flow editor with versions, test runs and run history |
 Cameras. Live video, clips on events, continuous recording, detection of people and cars |
 Zigbee. Zigbee2MQTT built in, network map, signal and firmware updates |
- a home with Zigbee sensors, lights, plugs and thermostats, MQTT devices (Tasmota, ESPHome) and a few IP cameras
- people who want one compact system instead of a hub, an NVR and a pile of add-ons
- local operation: devices, video and history never leave the house
- a hub that survives power cuts and comes back by itself
If you need hundreds of integrations or a stable release today, Home Assistant is the better choice. Valo focuses on doing a smaller set of things well.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/valo-home/valo/main/install.sh | sudo bash
On a clean Ubuntu or Debian machine this installs Docker, starts Valo and prints its address. With Docker already installed, git clone https://github.com/valo-home/valo.git && cd valo && docker compose up -d does the same. To look around first, run the demo with simulated devices: MOCKS_LANG=en ./valo demo up.
| Repository | What is inside |
|---|---|
| valo | the hub: core, web interface, official extensions, documentation, installer, screenshots |
| extension-template | a template for your own extension with a working example and tests |
| app | the mobile app, planned |
| .github | this page, contributing guide, issue templates |
- try the demo and open an issue for anything that looks wrong
- write an extension for a device or a service you use, start from the template
- help with translations: English, Ukrainian, Russian, German, French, Spanish and Japanese
- read the contributing guide before a pull request
Valo is open source under the Apache License 2.0. It is not affiliated with Home Assistant.